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Constraining models of inflationary magnetogenesis with NANOGrav data
KTH, Centres, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA. IUCAA, Post Bag 4,Pune Univ Campus, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India.;.
2022 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 105, no 4, article id L041302Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Generation of magnetic field during inflation can explain its presence over a wide range of scales in the Universe. In [Sharma et al Phys. Rev. D 96, 083511 (2017)], we proposed a model to generate these fields during inflation. These fields have nonzero anisotropic stress which lead to the generation of a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GW) in the early universe. Here we show that for a scenario of magnetogenesis where reheating takes place around QCD epoch, this stochastic GW background lies in the 95% confidence region of the stochastic common spectrum process probed by NANOGrav collaboration. This is the case when the generated electromagnetic field (EM) energy density is 3%-10% of the background energy density at the end of reheating. For this case, the values of magnetic field strength B-0 similar to (0.7-1.4) x 10(-11) G and its coherence length similar to 3 kpc at the present epoch. These values are for the models in which EM fields are of nonhelical nature. For the helical nature of the fields, these values are B-0 similar to (2.1-3.8) x 10(-10) G and its coherence length similar to 90 kpc.

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American Physical Society (APS) , 2022. Vol. 105, no 4, article id L041302
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310243DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L041302ISI: 000761171300002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85126003720OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-310243DiVA, id: diva2:1647243
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